Translation of: Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America, som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania, first printed Stockholm, 1702

An account of the earliest Swedish settlement in America compiled from manuscripts left by the author's grandfather and by Peter Lindstrom, an engineer and cartographer in the colony, and from oral sources

Book IV, p. 144-156, is a "Vocabulary and phrases in the American language of New Sweden, otherwise called Pennsylvania", and includes glossaries of words and phrases relating to religion, parts of the body, clothing, weather, animals and plants, numbers, and useful conversational phrases in the Delaware language. Also contains "Discourses which took place at a council held by the Indians in 1645, on the subject of the Swedes and of New Sweden, in which their sachem or king, first speaks with his son, about calling the nation together" on p. 153-156

Addenda, p. [157]-166, includes "Of the Minques, or Minkus, and their language" on p. [157]-159 and gives a sizeable vocabulary of words and phrases and numerals in the Iroquois language

"A list of the Swedish families residing in New Sweden in the year 1693, with the number of individuals in each family": p. [164]-166

Signatures: pi1 A 2-20 (2, verso blank) 21 (-21)

Errata: p. vi, 1st count; p. 166, 3rd count

Bookseller's advertisements: on back cover of binding

Sabin

Larson, Esther E. Swedish commentators on America

Pilling, J.C. North American

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in original printed boards with title on cover; rear board fully detached; housed in green cloth clipcase measuring 26 cm. high

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